Effect of health education programme on knowledge about AIDS and HIV transmission in paramedical personnel working in Benha hospitals.

Accurate information about acquired immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is important for prevention. This study is intended to asses AIDS knowledge in paramedical personnel working in Benha Hospitals and to measure the effect of health education programme done on knowledge about AIDS in general, modes of HIV transmission and their degree of misperception about transmission through causal contact. A well designed health education programme using personal communication & visual media techniques was conducted to 238 paramedical personnel working in Benha hospitals, during the year 1992. The results of this study pointed out that the means of the scores of general AIDS knowledge and transmission knowledge were greatly and significantly improved by the end of the programme (P < 0.01).